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They call themselves citizen journalists, media workers, or media activists. Amid the chaos of conflict, they are determined to gather and distribute the news.
By María Salazar-Ferro

Journalists Bryn Karcha, center, of Canada, and Toshifumi Fujimoto, right, of Japan, run for cover with an unidentified fixer in Aleppo's district of Salaheddine on December 29, 2012. (Reuters/Muzaffar Salman)

New York, December 10, 2013--The Committee
to Protect Journalists calls for the immediate release of two Spanish
journalists who were abducted in Syria almost three months ago. Javier Espinosa
and Ricardo Garcia Vilanova have been held captive by the Al-Qaeda affiliate
Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) since September 16, the families of the
journalists announced today.

When Mick Deane was killed in Egypt on Wednesday, he became the 1,000th journalist documented by CPJ as having died in direct relation to his work. The photos above, a sampling of those who have died over the past 21 years, serve as a powerful reminder of the cost of critical, independent journalism.

New
York, February 25, 2013--A French freelance photographer died in a Turkish
hospital on Sunday from shrapnel wounds he received while covering the unrest
in Syria's Idlib province three days earlier, according to news reports.

Olivier
Voisin, 38, had contributed work to several local and international
publications, including Le Monde, The Guardian, and Agence France-Presse. His website chronicles his work from some of the world's most
dangerous countries for journalists, including Libya, Haiti, Somalia, Brazil,
and Kenya.

Syrian violence contributed to a sharp rise in
the number of journalists killed for their work in 2012, as did a series of
murders in Somalia. The dead include a record proportion of journalists who
worked online. A CPJ special report

Murder is the leading cause of work-related deaths among
journalists worldwide--and this year was no exception. But the death toll in
2012 continued a recent shift in the nature of journalist fatalities worldwide.
More journalists were killed in combat situations in 2012 than in any year since
1992, when CPJ began keeping detailed
records.

Syria and Libya were
the main themes at the 19th edition of the Bayeux-Calvados Prize for
War Correspondents, which took place this weekend in the historical city of
Bayeux, a few miles away from the Normandy beaches where Allied forces landed
in June 1944 to liberate Europe from the Nazi yoke.